Session title and presenter name: Karen Engleman and Patti Weeg, From Crayon to Stylus
From this session, what information made a lasting impression?Mobilityware.com to get "skins" . They seemed to have alot of experience with handhelds. They mentioned several games to use: ABC Cursive, About Face, Change Count, Quizzler, Monkey Byte seemed like a great one for kids.
How will you use this information as a teacher? (Productivity tool? Instructional tool?) I am not a teacher. I will pass this along to teachers and beam these to our class sets of Palms.
How will your students use this information? (What kind of learning activity?)They did not talk about just one activity but of the success of handheld in Wicomico County to engage students.
What kind of product will be produced from this type of educational handheld activity? none
How will you assess the student-created product? I'm not a teacher so I don't know.
What roadblocks are currently in place that would prevent you from doing this in your classroom? Is this meeting the curriculum goals the teachers have to meet? Do the curriculum specialists approve of this? If not, the teachers are not going to use it. Have the curriculum specialists attended conferences on handhelds?
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